Page contents or widget in header

  • Resolved Harv27

    (@harv27)


    15 years, 3 months ago

    Hi!
    Just started using WP this week and trying to modify a theme.
    I’d like to add an “about” snippet to the header area and would like to know what is the better way to do so.

    Create a page and use queryposts to load the contents.
    Or
    Create a new widget area and use a text widget.
    Thanks!

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  • If you don’t need WYSIWYG and/or are happy using raw markup, I’d go with the widget route myself. Otherwise you will need a page plus get_posts or query_posts. If you use the latter, just remember to reset the query before the main Loop.

    Thread Starter Harv27

    (@harv27)

    Thanks, for the reply.
    I’d like to try both, in the meantime I tried the page approach.

    using the following code I keep getting the first post.

    <?php
    // retrieve one post with an ID of 5
    query_posts(‘page_name=about’);

    global $more;
    // set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post
    $more = 0;

    // the Loop
    while (have_posts()) : the_post();
    // the content of the post
    the_content(‘Read the full post ?’);
    endwhile;
    wp_reset_query();
    ?>
    got this code from
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/query_posts

    Any suggestions?

    Assuming your About page has a page id of 23, try using:

    <?php
 $about_page = get_posts('page_id=23');
 foreach($about_page as $about) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
 <?php the_content(); ?>
 <?php endforeach; ?>
    Thread Starter Harv27

    (@harv27)

    This seems to get the current pages content, not the about page. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a particular area I should be putting the code?

    You need to place the code in header.php after the opening <body> tag but well before any other Loop. Make sure that you are using the correct id for the About page.

    Thread Starter Harv27

    (@harv27)

    esmi, That’s exactly where I placed it.
    I’ve given up on this route for now – it ignores the page id and loads the current page still. I following your suggestion on another post and used a sidebar widget. Thanks!

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